Multiple Choice. Read the excerpt from a speech given by Herbert Hoover
during the presidential campaign.
During the war we necessarily turned to the Government to solve every difficult
economic problem... there was no other solution. For the preservation of the
State, the Federal Government became a centralized despotism which
undertook unprecedented responsibilities, assumed autocratic powers, and
took over the business of citizens. To a large degree we regimented our whole
people temporarily into a socialistic state. However justified in time of war, if
continued in peace time it would destroy not only our American system but
with it our progress and freedom as well. . . . We were challenged with a peace-
time choice between the American system of rugged individualism and a
European philosophy of diametrically opposed doctrines-doctrines of
paternalism and state socialism.
- presidential candidate Herbert Hoover, 1928
The beliefs expressed by Hoover in this excerpt influenced him to adopt
policies that led to
O US isolationism and the country's refusal to join the League of Nations.
government inaction that worsened the Great Depression's effects.
O the repeal of Jim Crow laws and improved rights for African Americans.
O increased business regulations and worker's rights protections.